SUPERCARS worth a whopping £6.5million were "stolen to order" from the UK and shipped to Thailand. Luxury cars valued at millions of pounds are now making their way back to the UK after being shipped to Thailand by criminal gangs that targeted motor dealers.
The motors including a £222,000 Lamborghini Huracan Spyder were returned to their owners after police successfully dismantled the international smuggling ring. The luxury motor had accumulated 8,000 miles and was originally purchased from a company specialising in supercar rentals. Police described the operation as a "sophisticated" finance fraud as they recovered Porsches , Mercedes and a Ford Mustang .
Intarasak Techaterasiri, the mastermind behind the thefts, recruited several people, including four UK citizens, to establish his vast criminal enterprise. read more on motors From 2016 to 2017, the gang ordered supercars on finance from dealerships in England and exported them to Thailand, where they were sold through legitimate dealerships. A Porsche 718 Boxsters, a Mercedes -Benz G-Wagon and a Range Rover SV Autobiography were among the luxury cars shipped to Bangkok.
A team led by the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS), known as Operation Titanium, was assembled after four Mercedes vehicles were discovered in a container at Southampton Port. The investigation revealed that the same person was sending other luxury UK vehicles that had been fraudulently obtained in Bangkok . Most read in Motors The N.
